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Ick. That page is doing nothing to limit your choices.
I've had good luck playing with PhpBB
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If you pay monthly for web hosting, check your cpanel area. Many hosting providers provide Forum software for free. It is easy to install (installs itself in a few clicks). Many are using open source Software called Fantastico that makes it simple and easy.
My hosting company allows installs of something called SMF (Simple Machines Forum) directly from the cpanel. A few clicks and it was installed and ready to configure.
It works....
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Setting up a simple PHPBB bulletin board and getting it going is really quite easy...depending on your host! You need to know if the host supports PHP and will allow you to install your own BB software, or if you're limited to what they pre-install.
PHPBB does get some frequent updates, which can be strenous to install. If you add other mods, it gets even more of a commitment to keep it secure through updates.
As an example, one of my current PHPBB boards is modded to include:
Color scheme
Modified banner
2 different security checks
Secret avatars
Mod installer
That means that every new release of PHPBB version may or may not work when I install it. At some point, I'm going to have to totally rebuild it as I'm now 4 version releases behind. So I'm currently getting spammer signups several times a day due to not running the patches...
So in a nutshell...it's easy to get started...but difficult to maintain. Very similar to raising children...
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Yeah, I am having a big problem with PHPBB and spam sign ups on one of my sites that I helped set-up, I want to trash the forum and start over with Simple Machines soon. I just need permission from the organization to do so. Forum has very little activity due to the spam.
